Nearly there

Well Eddie is nearly at the end of his kitten campaign, oh how I wish I could curl up in his pen and sleep through the day! He still loves the shows and it would seem quite likes staying over in hotels too, especially if he can keep mummy and daddy awake with his antics, helped of course by his show buddy Aimee!

He finalled in 9 of the 12 rings at Swanley and now has 31 finals so is discarding those lower points. Unfortunately the kitten counts have really dropped, probably time of year and also because everyone is trying to scrape in finals before England (not the UK) loses isolated status, so I don't think he'll be able to get BOB in the region but we can still try for a Regional Win (even though I said I wouldn't campaign this season)!

On the home front Marnie looks close to bursting point and the rest of the girls have all decided to call at the same time, we will be mating some of them up in the next few weeks. We still have some big babies to home though, back when they were babies everyone wanted cheap older kittens/cats now they are older everyone has decided that maybe they aren't quite as hard up as they thought and want little babies that are ready to go - arghh! I'm afraid my boys and girls are not a production line and we do not make to order, our babies are ready when they are ready and even then we occasionally run kittens on or they are not ready at exactly 13 weeks for other reasons.

The house is nearly finished!! Still some tiling and decorating to do but hopefully everything will be back to normal in a few weeks :-)

TTFN

Claire

Happy Birthday

Happy 1st Birthday to Breeze and Ice's puppies!

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Claire

Ten out of Ten

We had a once in a lifetime show last weekend (I seriously doubt it will happen again) we were showing Eddie and Aimee (our American Curl) for both days at Oneforall cat club's show in Brigg, there were 5 rings each day and to our amazement both kittens finalled in all ten rings. Aimee finished 2nd Best in show and Eddie nibbled at her heels with 3rd Best and Best shorthair!!! They were beaten by a stunning Red Persian kitten, who was an amazing ball of fluff, and like Eddie, played like mad on the table.

Ollie came out on the Sunday, taking all 5 BOBs and two 7th Bests in the finals which now makes him a Double Grand :-)

We have new homes for some of the kittens and also our adorable Spring and hope they bring their new owners as much joy as they brought us. We still have 3 chunky monkey Selkirk kittens available and with much soul searching have decided to neuter Alfie and find him his forever pet home. Alfie was the first Cinnamon & White Selkirk to be born in the UK, his Cinnamon & White straight coated daughter has just joined us and we feel he has played his part. He has never been a sprayer, lives happily with the other boys (and of course girls) and is a general happy chappy, he will be 3 years old in July.

TTFN

Claire

Comings and goings

At last we have had some sensible enquiries for our babies and a few left for new homes this past weekend. We still have kittens available, big as they may be, they are still very much kittens and knowing how our lines develop they have tons of growing still to do.
Eddie picked up another 3 finals at his last show and his next show is this weekend he is just getting to the big body little head stage but I am hoping he will come out of that quickly!
Our first British Shorthair kittens will be due at the end of March/start of April. Marnie is expecting to Morgan, Dee's gorgeous Black boy who is Lexi's dad. Marnie has a lovely coat, substance and eye colour for a Fawn but I hope to Morgan we will get babies with nice round chubby heads as well.
We are not planning any Selkirk matings until our current kittens have homes, although this is disappointing in many ways both for me and people waiting on specific kittens from us, it is the best thing in the long run. Our big kittens are just so soppy I don't want to see them being passed over for 'little babies' and I will not compromise on the amount of attention they receive.

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Claire

Snow Dogs

Here are a few photos of various Lelaurier Dalmatians enjoying the snow!!

Left to right; Ice (disappearing), Spring, Wave (behind), Storm (in front), Sam (Jack Russell), Summer and finally Breeze.

Wave in front, Storm alongside and Breeze behind

Lelaurier Winterstorm born October 07

Lelaurier Springbreeze - Spring is the last puppy we have available from our March 2008 litter.

Now some pictures of pups we have bred, now enjoying the snow in their new homes!

Lelaurier Snowdrop 'Lottie' owned by my parents born April 2002

Lelaurier Crownofthorns 'Thor' owned by the Clarks born March 2008. Pictured here with his slave Nathan

Lelaurier Newbeginnings 'Benny' owned by the Pococks born March 2008. Pictured here with his slave Nathan (another one)

Enjoy the piccies and any other owners feel free to email some over to me!

TTFN
Claire

Yippee!

Well we had a great show, Ollie's first daughter made Champion on Saturday and gained 4 of the 6 Best of Breeds, although she has great curl she also has great type, with a lovely open expression and brilliant substance, especially for an 18 month old female who still hasn't had kittens yet!

Pole dancing Eddie (Lelaurier Limited Edition) also had a great show with 7 finals overall, a couple of judges had seen him in December and couldn't believe how much he had grown, it was only his pole dancing antics that gave him away as the same cat! Another judge said he was a future star and if his half siblings are anything to go by he most certainly will be.


Clair and Chris brought Sunny (Lelaurier Burntorange - Cinnamon SR) out on the Sunday, it is fantastic to see how well this girl has matured and she now has cheeks! For such a dainty girl she managed 2 Best of Breeds based on her type, she didn't final but that will come.
The best bit though is Clair and Chris' alter boy Bud (Lelaurier Cowboy Boots) after getting a 2nd Best on Saturday afternoon we did all wonder whether he was cursed to always be the bridesmaid, he has had Bests before but they were before he had enough points for Quad, well Sunday morning changed all that, with a lot of teasing and winding up Bud was finally awarded Best shorthair alter by Jean Marc Lagarde making this gorgeous lump of a boy a Supreme Grand Champion Alter!!!!!!! Bud is the first UK bred SH alter to do this for the Selkirk breed and my second Supreme Selkirk. I really couldn't be more pleased with the way our breeding programme is going, onwards and upwards!

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Claire

New Year

Well, it's January and no the floor wasn't finished for Christmas but it's very nearly there!!
Cali's Selkirk kittens had a great time trying to remove everything off the tree, whilst Lucky tried to kill it. Harmony's boys were a bit more laid back about it all and satisfied themselves with chewing the lower branches.
Cali's boys are just sooooo lovely, great big hunks of purr and her little lady is such a sweetheart too. We are delighted to hear that Edie has settled herself right in with Pam and given her the full Lelaurier experience!!
We have a lovely new home for Thor and he will be leaving us in a week, it may have taken some time but the right homes always do turn up and I know he will be very happy there. So we just have to find that perfect home for Spring now.
We have never been ones to just sell our babies to whoever wants them, the homes have to be right and we are quite happy to keep them until that is found, even if they do eat us out of house and home in the process!
Just before Christmas our gorgeous new addition joined us, Sassy or Catbalu Delicious is a Chocolate Tortie British carrying the Cinnamon gene. Her dad is our own bred Simba that Dee owns and her mum is Dee's wonderful Champion girl Emma, who also happens to be Joshy's mum so Sassy is a very special girl to us.



Sully and Gracie have now been neutered, Sully is staying here with us and Gracie has a wonderful quiet home that she is leaving for tomorrow, it will suit her perfectly and I am sure she is going to enjoy the one to one fuss she will be getting, thanks to her new mum Kate for giving her the home she needs.
We are showing in a couple of weeks time and will also have the American Curl kittens out on exhibiton, so here we go again!

TTFN
Claire